Curtain rod mounting



Aug. 21, 1934. R, c, vom 1,970,925

CURTAIN Rop MOUNTING K Filed June 23. 1933 INVENTOR mar-ARD c. voe-r ATTORNEYS Patented ug. 2l, i934 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIcE s claims.

This invention relates more particularly to mountings for supporting a number of curtain rods, drapery rods etc. on a window frame. An limportant object of the invention is to provide such a mounting of generally improved design.

Other objects of the invention will appear hereinafter.

In the drawing, Fig. 1 is avfront View showing a plurality of curtain rods supported upon a window frame by the improved mounting;

Fig. 2 a top plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 a view similar to Fig. 1 showing drapery rods mounted at the window frame along with i curtain rods;

Fig. 4 a perspective view of one of the rod supporting brackets on a larger scale;

Fig. 5 a section on the line 5--5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 an enlarged section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 3; I

Fig. 7 a perspective view of an end portion of one of the curtain rods;

Fig. 8 a detail perspective view showing the hinge mounting of a drapery rod on one of the bracket slides; and

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a bracket slide provided with a curtain rod support and bearing an ornament.

The improved mounting includes a pair of brackets designed for ready attachment to and detachment from the upper corners of a window frame and provided with improved supports for curtain rods and drapery rods and ornaments. Each bracket has a clamping Yand anchoring structure operable diagonally of a window frame corner to securely but detachably hold the bracket to the frame without the employment of screws or nails.

Each bracket includes a substantially flat body 1 formed of a single piece of sheet metal. The body has a horizontal upper edge and a vertical side edge. Along said edges the body has rearwardly turned integral flanges which bear inwardly turned anchoring barbs 2 to engage the outer corner edges of the window frame. There are several of these barbs at each of said edges and spaced a material distance therealong. In the present instance the side edge of the bracket body is materially klonger than the upper edge. The body is integrally formed with a shank 3 extending downwardly and inwardly away from' said edges, diagonally of the said upper corner.

This shank is flat and flush with the body of the bracket and has straight parallel side edges.

Mounted on the shank 3 is a slide 4. The

latter is also formed of a single piece of sheet metal with opposite edges folded around the straight edges of the shank to form retaining guides 5. Along a longitudinal central line the slide is pressed outwardly to form a semi-tubular 50 spring housing 6. A tension spring 7 is disposed in said housing and has its outer end anchored to the slide and its inner end anchored to the bracket body. The spring tends to pull the slide inwardly' along the shank. To adjust the ten- 65 sion of the spring and the position of the slide along the shank the anchorage of the inner end is formed by a screw 8 and the shank has a longitudinal row of screw holes 9 to selectively receive said screw. At the outer end of the slide the under plies of the folded margins have integral anchoring barbs 10. The latter are bent under and twisted to proper positions for eective anchoring engagement with the window frame within the adjacent inner corner thereof.

For the support or" curtain rods the bracket body has a number of slotted ears. In the present instance there are three ears. Two of them are formed by a substantially U-shaped j strip 1l of sheet metal. The bend of said strip is 80 permanently secured to the front face of the bracket body by riveting or otherwise, at a point spaced materially inward from the vertical edge of the bracket body. The legs of the strip project forward and form the ears 12 and 13. The 85 ear 12 projects materially farther than the ear 13. At its vertical edge the bracket body has an integral ear 14 bent forward and then laterally. The means for supporting the curtain rods on the ears will be described hereinafter.

There are provided means for hingedly mounting drapery rods also upon the brackets. Between the ears 12 and 14 and I-shaped slit is cut in the bracket body and the margins along the vertical reach of said slit are pressed forward to 4form parallel vertical guides 15. A slide 16 is ttable downward into said guides to detachably hold it to the bracket. Below the guides the bracket body is slit and pressed forward to form j a stop 17 to limit the insertion of the slide. The 100 slide is formed of a single piece of sheet metal.

It is folded to form a tubular vertical socket 18,

a vertical double-ply web 19 of material with and longitudinal oase anges 20 extending laterally y in opposite directions and in a vertical plane at a right angle to the web. The base flanges are slidably ttable within the guides 15. When the slide is mounted on the bracket the socket forms a support for a drapery rod or for an ornament, as will be explained hereinafter.y

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able flanges.

50,3 with closed ends.

j the prongs.

In the employment of the brackets they are mounted upon the opposite upper corners of a window frame E'. The barbs 2 of each bracket are engaged with the outer edges of the frame, at

5 opposite sides of the corner, and the slide 4 is pulled outward along the shank 3, against the resistance of spring 7, to bring the barbs 10 of the slide into anchoring engagement with the frame at `opposite sides of the adjacent inner The tension of the spring, exerted diagonally said inner and outer corners, holds the barbs in tight anchoring engagement with the frame, and the bracket is thereby held securely in piace. t the same time it is readily detachfrom the frame by pulling the slide 4 downwardly along the shank 3, against the resi"'ance ci the spring 7, so that the anchoring be es may be disengaged from the frame. straight line arrangements of the upper barbs. 2

2o and their engagement with the straight upper edge of the frame ensures accurate leveling of the rod-supporting ears at the opposite sides of the frame.

The supporting connections between the culg5 tain rods, designated 21, 22 and 23, and the supporting ears on the brackets are of the general character disclosed in my U. S. Patent No. 1,857,991, dated May 10, 1932. The present structure ci said connections is improved to 3aA facilitate the attachment of the rods to the ears.

The'rods are extensible and in the present instance they are formed of a` plurality of sections each formed of a sheet metal strip with its longitudinai edges folded rearward to form hook-like The sections of each rod are telescoped, with the said anges of one section slidabljr tted within those of the other section. At each end the rod has a pair of longitudinally projecting transversely spaced prongs 24. The latter are ggljexible and resilient and they are preferably formed by a strand of wire bent into U form. Adjacent its bend the U-shaped strand is secured to the rod by pressing inward portions of said longitudinal nanges of the rod around the strand.

;;The ends of the strand project to form the prongs 'Wdh 0f the prongs, and the minimum inner width of the mouth is materially less than that of the expanded prongs. The prongs are inserted by merely forcing them transversely through the mouth, the cam edges compressing When passed through the mouth the prongs expand to engage the closed ends of the slot. Thereby the rod is supported on the bracket. The heads of the prongs form stops to lock the prongs against endwise Withdrawal.

de.; The rods are readily released from the brackets by merely grasping the heads of the prongs and squeezing the prongs together to pass outward through the mouth.

The curtain rods 21 and 22 are entirely straight 7 0 ,I while the outermost rod 23 has its ends bent rearward to bring the supporting prongs 24 into connecting relation to the outer bracket ears 14. As indicated at 28, the innermost rod 21 may have locking means to maintain a required length ad- 7'5 'f justinent of the-rod. Then when the brackets are The released from the window frame the locked rod 21 will hold the brackets in a fixed spaced relation and the brackets and rods will be held assembled in a unit for convenient handling.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the three curtain rods are shown supported by the brackets, while the slides 16 are remove-d from the brackets. When drapes are to be suspended at the window frame the outermost curtain rod is removed and the slides 16 are applied to the brackets. Tov `support the drapes there are rods or poles 29 each having a rigid dependingY shank 30 at one end. Said shank is inserted downwardly into the slide socket 18. The shank is formed to iit rotatably in the socket and form a hinge connection. Thereby the drape rods are supported to swing laterally on the window frame.

The slides 16 may also be employed to support ornaments on the window frame. As shown in Fig. 9 there may be provided for each slide, an ornament 31 having a supporting shank 32 iittable into the socket of theslide.` An ornament of the proper shape and size will serve to conceal the bracket structure above the curtains and drapes. The slides may also bear curtain rod supporting ears. Fig. 9 shows a slide having an ear 33 xed to its web 19 to project laterally. When the slides are so equipped with these ears the outermost ears 14 on the brackets may be omitted.

It will be seen that I have provided a curtain supporting structure which is readily set-up and taken down and is capable of many adjustments and adaptations.

What I claim is: n

1. A curtain rod mounting including a bracket releasably attachable to an upper corner portion of a window frame and comprising a body formed of single piece of sheet metal and having a plurality of integral anchoring barbs spaced apart materially along a horizontal line and a plurality of integral anchoring barbs spaced apart materially along a vertical line for anchoring respectively to the upper edge of the window frame and to an outer side edge thereof at opposite sides oi an upper corner of the frame, a slide shiftably borne by said bracket body, inner anchoring means borne by said slide, a tension spring connection between the bracket body and said slide to exert a tension upon said inner anchoring means and said barbs to anchor the bracket to the window frame, and a curtain rod support borne by the bracket, said inner anchoring means and sai-d materially spaced barbs along the vertical and horizontal lines being cooperable to accurately true the bracket and curtain rod supu port on the window frame.

2. A curtain rod mounting including a bracket releasably attachable to an upper corner portion of a window frame and comprising a body formed of a single piece of sheet metal and having a plurality of integral anchoring barbs spaced apart materially along a horizontal line and a plurality of integral anchoring barbs spaced apart materially along a vertical line for anchoring respectively to the upper edge of the window frame and to an outer side edge thereof at opposite sides of an upper corner ofv the frame, the bracket body having a straight, flat integral shank to extend diagonally of the window corner, a slide shiftably mounted on said shank and formed of a single piece of sheet metal with opposite side edges turned inwardl to form guidesengaging the longi.- tudinal edges of said shank and a longitudinal central portion bent outward to form a semitubularspring housing said slide having integral anchoring barbs to engage the window frame within the adjacent inner corner thereof and arranged in divergent relation to each other to dispose their points in direct opposition to the inner edges of the frame, a tension spring Within said spring housing and anchored to the slide and to the bracket body and tending to pull the slide inward along the shank to hold the bracket anchored to the frame, and a curtain rod support borne by the bracket body said anchoring barbs on the slide and said anchoring barbs on the bracket body materially spaced along the horizontal and vertical lines being cooperable to accurately true the bracket and curtain rod support on the frame.

3. As an article of manufacture, a unitary mounting for rods to support window hangings or the like, comprising a bracket body for releasable attachment to an upper corner of a window frame and having a plurality of outer anchoring barbs spaced materially apart along a horizontal line and a plurality of outer anchoring barbs spaced materially apart along a vertical line for anchoring respectively to the upper edge of the Window frame and to an outer side edge thereof at opposite sides of an upper corner of the frame, a slide borne by said bracket body to shift obliquely and having inner anchoring barbs spaced apart transversely of the direction of shift of the slide and diverging to effectively anchor to the adjacent inner corner edges of the window frame, a tension spring connection between the bracket body and said slide to hold all of said anchoring means in engagement with the frame to hold the bracket in place, a support for one of said rods borne by the bracket body, a slide having a vertical socket to support another of said rods, and guides borne by the bracket body to removably hold said latter slide to the bracket.

4. As an article of manufacture, a unitary mounting for rods to support Win-dow hangings or the like comprising a bracket body for releasable attachment to an upper corner of a window frame and having a plurality of anchoring barbs spaced materially apart along a horizontal line and a plurality of barbs spaced materially apart along a vertical line for anchoring respectively to the upper edge of the window frame and to an outer side edge thereof at opposite sides of an upper corner of the frame, a support for one of said rods borne by the bracket body, and a vertical socket borne by the bracket body to support another of said rods.

5. As an article of manufacture, a unitary mounting for a rod to support a window hanging or the like, comprising a bracket body for releasable attachment to an upper corner of a window frame and having a plurality of anchoring barbs spaced materially apart along a horizontal line and a plurality of barbs spaced materially apart along a vertical line for anchoring respectively to the upper edge of the window frame and to an outer side edge thereof at opposite sides of an upper corner of the frame, and a support for said rod borne by the bracket body.

6. A mounting for a rod to support a Window hanging or the like, comprising a bracket body for releasable attachment to an upper corner of a window frame and having a plurality of anchoring barbs spaced materially apart along a horizontal line and a plurality of barbs spaced materially apart along a vertical line for anchoring respectively to the upper edge of the window frame and to an outer side edge thereof at opposite sides of an upper corner of the frame, a support for said rod borne by the bracket body, and additional anchoring means in tensioning connection with the bracket body and engageable with the window frame to cooperate with said anchoring barbs to releasably hold the bracket body to the frame.

7. A supporting bracket for a curtain rod, including a forwardly projecting rod-supporting ear having a vertical slot closed at its ends and an inwardly tapering mouth leading from the forward edge of the ear to the medial portion of the slot and of a maximum outer width exceeding the length of the slot and a minimum inner width materially less than the length of the slot, the ear having converging cam edges defining said mouth, for the purpose set forth.

8. A supporting bracket for a curtain rod, including a forwardly projecting rod supporting ear having opposed vertically spaced keeper notches to receive resilient prongs on an end of the curtain rod, and inwardly converging cam edges defining inwardly tapering entrance clearance from the forward edge of the ear to said notches at points spaced vertically inward from the bottoms of the notches, the maximum distance between the said cam edges exceeding the vertical distance between the bottoms of the notches and the minimum distance between said cam edges being materially less than said vertical distance between the bottoms of the notches, for the purpose set forth.

RICHARD C. VOGT. 

